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Mathew
Founder
Mathew is the founder of ABW Medical, and currently serves as Chairman of the Company. Mathew has a unique background with extensive experience in both medical practice management and corporate business. He has managed a multi-million dollar medical practice, where he deployed the athenaNet software suite, helped grow the practice more than 3 times in revenue and consulted with practices across the country. His corporate business career includes stints as the CEO of Silicon Valley start-up (sold to Avaya), Vice President at Fortune 200, Alcatel-Lucent, and positions at Netscape Communications and Goldman Sachs.
Mathew holds an MBA degree from Stanford Business School and is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate (BA and BS degrees) from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and College of Arts and Sciences.
Vijay Dass
Director – Operations / Marketing and Business Development
JoAnne
Director - Client Services
JoAnne comes with 25 years of Revenue Cycle Management experience and over 10 years of consulting and Client Management experience. JoAnne has worked with several top-tier consulting firms, managing projects, consulting with executives and decision makers, and providing leadership for AR and Revenue Cycle Management Services, including operational improvements, technology selection and implementation, data-driven decision support, staff development and management, vendor management, and leadership mentoring. Having worked as client services manager in Medical Billing, she has successfully orchestrated the provider-vendor relationship, and has a history of successful team building and forging successful collaboration from both sides.
Sam
Business Development Manager
Sam is Business Development Manager at ABW Medical. Prior to joining ABW, Sam worked across the healthcare IT industry, notably for an app startup and multiple EHR companies – including athenahealth. At athenahealth, Sam was a Channel Partner Development Manager for more than seven years. In that role, Sam managed athenahealth’s portfolio of consultants who, among other things, assisted athenahealth clients with the RCM tasks (i.e. credentialing) and athenahealth “co-sourcing” tasks (i.e. working hold buckets). Sam helped bring ABW into the athenahealth partnership program and would often times rely on ABW as his “go-to” partner for any athenahealth billing issues. Sam has been in healthcare IT for more than 10 years. He holds a MBA from Penn State University and a Bachelor Degree in Information Sciences and Technologies from Penn State University.
Dana
CEO
Dana is CEO of ABW Medical and has been with the company since 2016 when he was brought on as COO to help ABW achieve its mission to make life better for its clients, partners, team members and communities. Dana started his career as a consultant with Accenture where he designed, built and implemented process and technology solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Dana then went on to co-found a 35 person consulting firm where he helped over 300 organizations improve performance by optimizing strategy, operations, organizational design, business process management (BPM), automation and outsourcing (BPO), key performance indicators and technology. Dana has an engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin and enjoys volunteering his time coaching entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, two daughters and their yellow lab.
Pradeep
Vice President – Delivery
Benjamin
Client Success
Ben is a Client Success Manager at ABW Medical. Prior to joining ABW, Ben worked at a large athenahealth enterprise client for three years as a Systems Administrator, where he trained RCM staff on how to use the athenahealth Platform (specializing in Collector and Payer Enrollment) as well as developing workflows for optimization of athenahealth that best suited the practice needs. He comes with 16 years of RCM experience, spanning a wide variety of specialties, and a Bachelor degree in Health Administration.
Karen
Client Success
Karen is a Client Success Manager at ABW Medical. Prior to ABW, Karen managed the billing and collections departments and ran the RCM process at two enterprise athenahealth clients in Boston, MA and in New Hampshire. Karen was a part of one of the initial clients of ABW Medical in 2012. Earlier in her career, Karen was Vice President at Textron Financial Services and ran the Northeast CBO at Concentra Health Services where she won the CBO of the Year award among 14 CBOs across the US.
Nneka
Client Success
Christa
Client Success
Christa is a Client Success Manager at ABW Medical. Prior to ABW, Christa was an independent RCM and EMR consultant for a variety of organizations and software companies nationwide. Christa has over 13 years of experience in the RCM industry with a focus on FQHC, Behavioral/Mental Health, Hospitals, and SNFs/LTCs organizations in various leadership roles. She has helped to develop many systems and workflows within the medical software industries, as well as in the FQHC and LTC sectors. Christa has extensive knowledge in a variety of EMR systems such as athenahealth, Kareo, AdvancedMD, Point Click Care, Epic, and American Health Tech (AHT) to name a few. She has held the position as a former CFO of an FQHC, and actively participates in local youth programs and charities. Christa holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, and proudly served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for six years.